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Cloudflare's operating probably the largest man-in-the-middle data harvesting operation in the world (at least in the commercial world)

If a site's running Cloudflare, and I don't have an amazing overarching reason to hit the site (eg my dr's portal), I add it to my block list

It is not always bad to harvest data. As a developer, I understand that there are often valid reasons for doing so.

I'm not sure where everyone got the idea that tracking and harvesting data is always bad.

In addition, it is essentially impossible to have something harmful happen to you if you refrain from entering your bank password on websites.

Harvesting data is almost always bad

There are a tiny handful of use cases where it is not

I don't understand how people are not more aware of the invasiveness of such activities